Maggie Pouncey’s Perfect Reader at Greenlight Bookstore

I’ll be at Greenlight Bookstore tonight for another installment of our monthly “Author/Blogger” series. This time around, it’s a hyperlocal affair, as Robin Lester of Clinton Hill Blog interviews Brooklyn-based Maggie Pouncey, who will be reading from her debut novel, Perfect Reader. As always, we’ll also be fielding questions from the audience—and since it looks like it actually might not rain this month, I hope those of you reading this in New York City might be able to make it. (The reading starts at 7:30 p.m.; Greenlight is right at the Lafayette St. stop on the C line, and very close to the Atlantic Avenue nexus for several other subways.)

I’m catching up with the back half of Perfect Reader this afternoon; it’s a great story about a twentysomething woman who’s struggling to deal with her father’s death, the situation exacerbated by his designation of her as his literary executor—including a collection of unpublished poems he wrote about his love for a girlfriend she never knew existed—who’s very eager to see those poems published.

12 July 2010 | events |